spamsk8r on 9/1/2004 at 09:25
I want to play UW1 on my WinXP box (Athlon XP 2400+, 512 DDR, Radeon 9700). I tried the patch that I found online, I set the EMS correctly, and I have tried running it with VDM-Sound, but to no avail. If I run it with VDM-Sound I get an error message that I am out of EMS memory (even though its set at 8192 in the properties) and if I don't use VDM-sound then it full-screens but crashes immediately back to Windows. Any tips for me?
twisty on 9/1/2004 at 10:08
Try <a href="http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1">DosBox</a> .
spamsk8r on 10/1/2004 at 08:15
Cool, thanks, works great with no problem. Now I wanna see how many other old games will work in DosBox :)
Gargamel on 24/2/2004 at 05:00
Hmm... I'm getting a weird error. Whenever I run UW with my EMS configured to the max of 32 MB, I get an error message of D001. What the hell does that mean? Before I got an error of not enough EMS, but I enabled it, and as far as I know, 32 MB of EMS RAM is plenty for UW. Any suggestins? Also note that this PC is a P3 667, so DosBox is not an option.
marklo on 27/2/2004 at 12:52
If I remember correctly UW1 is a bit twitchy about expanded and extended memory, it likes one and hates the other. So check which type of memory this is. I'm assuming that dosbox let's you configure this.
vividos on 29/2/2004 at 22:23
Hi,
if I remember correctly, UW1 needs both EMS and XMS memory, and of course enough conventional memory, which is a bit tricky :-) 4096 of EMS and XMS should be enough. Hope you get it to work!
bye
vividos
Tej on 25/3/2004 at 01:01
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Originally posted by vividos if I remember correctly, UW1 needs both EMS and XMS memory, and of course enough conventional memory, which is a bit tricky :-) 4096 of EMS and XMS should be enough. Hope you get it to work!
Not with VDMSound though. No matter what you select as the memory amount, it always tells the same: not enough EMS.
These old games are sometimes really a pain. It took me ages to set up Ultima VIII Pagan, because it crashes if it has
too much memory, so you need to fill it up (with ramdrive or something). Still, it wouldn't work the way it should on my P4 2.4 SB Live! Player 5.1: in DOS with SB16 emulation it utters no sound whatsoever, and with VDMSound the sound it on some snail timer as it plays kind of slowly... Maybe I should try DOSBox as well.
